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(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 01, 2020, employees of Qatar Aviation Services (QAS), wearing protective gear as a safety measure during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, walk along the tarmac after sanitising an aircraft at Hamad International Airport in the Qatari capital Doha. - Qatar has seen its airline's crews applauded and won thumbs-up from governments after repatriating thousands of travellers stranded by the coronavirus aviation shutdown. Observers say Doha is hoping that by keeping its planes in the skies, in contrast to its regional competitors, it will win diplomatic points (Photo by KARIM JAAFAR / AFP)
Qatar flies to the rescue
DOHA: Employees of Qatar Aviation Services (QAS), wearing protective gear as a safety measure during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, walk along the tarmac after sanitizing an aircraft at Hamad International Airport in the Qatari capital Doha. - AFP DOHA: Qatar Airways' crews have been applauded by passengers and won praise from governments for repatriating thousands of travelers stranded by the coronavirus aviation shutdown. Observers say...
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Deep connection: Virus takes India spiritual retreats online
DHARAMKOT: Buddhist teacher Tenzin Drolma leads a live online course for meditation at the Tushita Meditation Centre for Buddhism studies from the Tibetan Mahayana tradition in Dharamkot. _ AFP NEW DELHI: At a remote hillside retreat in northern India, Tibetan Buddhist nun Tenzin Drolma usually holds intimate, face-to-face classes-but since the coronavirus pandemic forced them online, her lessons have been packed with people seeking inner peace...
US President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 15, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
Trump threatens to adjourn Congress to allow him to appoint top officials
WASHINGTON, DC: US President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, in the Rose Garden of the White House on Wednesday in Washington, DC. - AFP WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to take the unprecedented step of adjourning Congress to allow him to appoint top officials whose nominations he claimed were being blocked by Democrats in the Senate. "I...
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Netanyahu and Gantz miss unity deal deadline, deadlock persists
TEL AVIV: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival Benny Gantz missed a midnight deadline to reach a unity government deal but agreed yesterday to continue talks. Even the medical and economic crises brought on by the coronavirus outbreak have so far failed to end an unprecedented political deadlock that has pushed Israel into three inconclusive elections in the last year, and perhaps now a fourth.Gantz and Netanyahu have...
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Bangladesh coast guard rescues 396 Rohingya from drifting boat
TEKNAF: Belongings of Rohingya refugees lay on the shore as their carrier boat remains anchored nearby in Teknaf yesterday. Thirty-two Rohingya died in a boat crammed with hundreds of "starving" men, women and children after 58 days in the Bay of Bengal after being denied entry by Malaysia and Thailand, officials said.-AFP DHAKA: At least 32 ethnic Rohingya died on a ship that drifted for weeks after it failed to reach Malaysia, officials of the...
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US says China may have conducted low-level nuclear test explosions
SHATAKSHI: China may have secretly set off low-level underground nuclear test explosions despite claiming to observe an international pact banning such blasts, the US State Department said in a report on Wednesday that could fuel US-Chinese tensions. - Reuters| WASHINGTON: China may have secretly set off low-level underground nuclear test explosions despite claiming to observe an international pact banning such blasts, the US State Department...
A South Korean official removes a poster of multiple candidates running in the parliamentary elections after the polls in Seoul on April 16, 2020. - South Korea's left-leaning ruling party has won a landslide election victory, partial results showed on April 16, after the coronavirus pandemic turned the political tide in President Moon Jae-in's favour. (Photo by - / YONHAP / AFP) / - South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT NO ARCHIVES RESTRICTED TO SUBSCRIPTION USE
South Korea's ruling party wins parliamentary election victory
SEOUL: A South Korean official removes a poster of multiple candidates running in the parliamentary elections after the polls in Seoul yesterday. South Korea's left-leaning ruling party has won a landslide election victory, partial results showed yesterday.-AFP SEOUL: South Korea's left-leaning ruling party has won a landslide election victory, partial results showed yesterday, after the coronavirus pandemic turned the political tide in...
A man wearing a facemask speaks with his phone at the Dharavi slum during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Mumbai on April 16, 2020. (Photo by PUNIT PARANJPE / AFP)
India charges Muslim leader with culpable homicide for virus surge
MUMBAI: A man wearing a facemask speaks with his phone at the Dharavi slum during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Mumbai yesterday.-AFP NEW DELHI: India has brought charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the chief of a Muslim seminary for holding a gathering last month that authorities say led to a big jump in coronavirus infections, police said...
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Indians start five-day period to avail amnesty
By Ben GarciaKUWAIT: Indians in Kuwait kicked off yesterday their scheduled five-day grace period in availing amnesty granted by the Kuwaiti government to all nationals from April 1-30. Many undocumented Indian nationals flocked at the amnesty processing venue in both Farwaniya Primary School for Girls and Al-Muthana Primary School for Boys. Kuwait Times captured in video the long queue of amnesty seekers almost encircling the huge compound of...
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Zain supports Kuwait National Counseling Program for COVID-19
KUWAIT: Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, announced its support to the National Counseling Program for COVID-19 (Corona Care Kw), a volunteer program that offers a free online interactive platform for mental health support to the Kuwaiti community during the exceptional circumstances to fight the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Kuwait.Zain's support to this volunteer initiative came as part of the company's...
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Temporary visas for people with expired ones
KUWAIT: Deputy Premier, Interior Minister and State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Anas Al-Saleh issued a ministerial decree to grant those in violation a three month temporary visa starting March 1, valid until May 31, 2020 online in cooperation with the IT and communications sector as follows:1- Residents present in the country whose residencies of any type expired.3- Those who entered the country with entry or visit visas of all types, that...
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Kuwait sought no help to deport illegal residents: UN
KUWAIT: Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Resident Coordinator in Kuwait Dr Tarek Al-Sheikh refuted reports that the Kuwaiti government asked the UN to step in and help deport violators of the residency law to their respective countries. He expressed full confidence in the approach of the government of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah to strengthening the country's new vision for humanitarian...
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Overstayers, sponsors to be deported
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Kuwait under unsteady northern and northwesterly winds triggering dust. - KUNA
Kuwait weather to remain unstable
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MAJDAL SHAMS: Druze elders and mourners surround the coffins of 10 of the 12 people killed in a rocket strike from Lebanon a day earlier, during a mass funeral in this Druze town in the Zionist-annexed Golan Heights on July 28, 2024. - AFP
Mideast seethes amid carnage
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KUWAIT: Photo provided by the Al-Zour oil Refinery shows a view of the facility, in Al-Zour, south of Kuwait City. – AFP
The impact of oil discoveries
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Official commends Kuwait and China military cooperation